The Political Magazine and Parliamentary, Naval, Military, and Literary Journal, Том 10

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Страница 113 He hoped the worthy member who had given notice of his intention to move for
leave to bring in a bill for the repeal of the shop tax, would fix on an early day for
that purpose, or that, if did not, government would take up the business, and do ...

Страница 115 Gentleman in office had that day declared, that the business of Supply had gone
on as quick and as regularly as ever, but was there no other public business than
the business of Supply? If the question respe&ting the Shop Tax had been ...

Страница 182 ... question from ...the other, and let it lie over for the congderation of the House
after the Call had operated effectually. He had no with, he declared, to delay the
public business an hour, but was ready to vote the Orduance Ettimates forthwith.

Страница 212 With regard to the grand and fundamental principles of the business now in
agitation, he entertained considerable confidence of success, as he conceived
that the house was pledged, by every tie of honour and dignity, to support him in
his ...

Страница 214 He was fully persuaded, that many papers were necessary for the elucidation of
the present business. Some Gentlemen had insinuated, that Mr. Hastings's
influence was under the controul of the Company at home; but he could not
assent to ...

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Страница 298 - Mr. Murphy brought him back to us again very kindly, and from that time his visits grew more frequent, till in the year 1766 his health, which he had always complained of, grew so exceedingly bad, that he could not stir out of his room in the court he inhabited for many weeks together, I think months.

Страница 296 - ... desiring some immediate relief; which when he brought back to the writer, he called the woman of the house directly to partake of punch, and pass their time in merriment.* It was not till ten years after, I dare say, that something in Dr.

Страница 298 - Johnson having listened some time to, "I would advise you, sir (said he, with a cold sneer), never to relate this story again ; you really can scarce imagine how very poor a figure you make in the telling of it.

Страница 170 - ... hearing one day, and he did not deny it, that when Murphy joked him the week before for having been so diligent of late between Dodd's sermon and Kelly's prologue, that Dr. Johnson replied, "Why, Sir, when they come to me with a dead stay-maker and a dying parson, what can a man do?

Страница 15 - Dubourg, who was, many years ago, a distinguished performer on that instrument, happened to be at the family seat ; but the child would not permit him to take the violin from his father, till his little hands were held ; after having heard Dubourg, however, the case was altered, and there was then much more difficulty to persuade him to let Dubourg give the instrument back to his father.

Страница 296 - Johnson's own notions about eating however were nothing less than delicate : a leg of pork boiled till it dropped from the bone, a veal pie with plums and sugar, or the outside cut of a salt buttock of beef, were his favourite dainties : with regard to drink, his liking was for the strongest, as it was not the flavour, but the effect he sought for, and professed to desire ; and when I first knew him, he used to pour capillaire into his Port wine.

Страница 293 - Dr. Lawrence told him one day, that if he would come and beat him once a week he would bear it; but to hear his complaints was more than man could support. 'Twas therefore that he tried, I suppose, and in eighteen years contrived to weary the patience of a woman.

Страница 5 - By nine o'clock, several of the battlements were broken, when all the leading parties of the four divisions advanced at the same time with scaling ladders ; but, after much endeavour for an hour, not a man had been able to get over the parapet; and...

Страница 170 - Why, Sir, when they come to me with a dead stay-maker and a dying parson, what can a man do?" He said, however, that "he hated to give away literary performances, or even to sell them too cheaply: the next generation...